About the Authors
- Richard A. Jensen
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* E-mail: richaj@uw.edu
Affiliation Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, School of Medicine, and the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Elisabet Agardh
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Ophthalmology, University Hospital MAS, Malmö, Sweden
- Åke Lernmark
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Clinical Sciences, Clinical Research Center, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
- Soffia Gudbjörnsdottir
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
- Nicholas L. Smith
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Affiliations Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, School of Medicine, and the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- David S. Siscovick
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Affiliations Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, School of Medicine, and the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Carina Törn
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Clinical Research Center, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
- on behalf of the DISS Group
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¶Members of the DISS group are listed in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RAJ EA AL NLS DSS CT. Performed the experiments: EA AL SG CT. Analyzed the data: RAJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EA AL SG NLS DSS CT. Wrote the paper: RAJ EA AL SG NLS DSS CT.